Adjourment Nears Sputters Oil Inquiry In Congress
Washington July 18 The House Commerce Committee'S oil price probe faces adjournment with little action expected this session. Testimony already given credits state regulatory bodies for conservation and avoiding monopoly. Independent Petroleum Assn counsel Russell Brown defends recent 25 cent crude oil rise and asserts conservation laws aid small operators.
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Congress
House Commerce Committee
Russell Brown
Independent Petroleum Assn
Brown
Little Man
Clothes Thief Suspect Caught By Familiar Patch
Oakland police arrest Leon Boyd 29 for burglary and theft after a plainclothesman notices a worn familiar patch on a suspect's suit knee. The arrest follows a prior theft of a suit from a parked car last Sunday.
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Oakland
Calif
Fernie Ingram
Ingram
Leon Boyd
Bailey County Farm Bureau Ice Cream Supper at Three Way
Bailey County Farm Bureau plans an ice cream supper and meeting at Three Way School gym Thursday at 8 30 p m. Three Way seeks a community queen with three nominees. others may join by seeing Mrs Baker Johnson. Three Way FFA will sell treats and Bill Millen will show home movies.
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Muleshoe
Three Way
Baker Johnson
FFA
Bill Millen
A B Davis To Teach Course At Dallas Institute
A B Davis of the Lubbock Chamber of Commerce will teach a selective course in Fair and Exposition Management at the Southwestern Institute for Commercial Organization Executives. The institute opens in Dallas and runs through Friday with chamber executives from eight states attending. Davis has long experience in fair management, including the Panhandle South Plains fair. He has led the Lubbock Chamber since 1924.
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U. S. Dept. of Agriculture
A. B. Davis
Lubbock Chamber of Commerce
Southwestern Institute For Commercial Organization
Dallas
Davis
Fair and Exposition
Institute
Chamber of Commerce
Arkansas
Louisiana
Texas
Oklahoma
Missouri
Kansas
Colorado
New Mexico
Ollie Green
Lon Atkins
Bob Clark
Ike to Host Reunion With Old Sergeant at White House
President Eisenhower will host a White House reunion with his World War I era top sergeant Tom Blazina of Chicago, who served under him in 1916 on the Mexican border. Blazina, a Chicago plumbing foreman, will attend with his wife, their son and daughter-in-law, and Rep. Fred E. Busbey. Captain Blazina is a West Point graduate and jet piloting instructor.
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Eisenhower
White House
Tom Blazina
Chicago
West Point
Blazina
Fred E. Busbey
R-Ill
Busbey
Trans World Air Lines seeks transatlantic run permission
New York July 18 The strike crippled Trans World Airways asks the Civil Aeronautics Authority for permission to fly the transatlantic route without special navigators. Flights have been cut 75 percent due to navigator walkout.
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New York
Trans World Airlines
Civil Aeronautics Authority
Railroad Commission Hikes Texas Oil Allowable
The Texas Railroad Commission raised the August oil allowable to 3,146,920 barrels daily after a brief proration hearing. Production days were kept at July levels with 21 days generally and 18 days for the East Texas Field. Panhandle fields like Pan Tex, Pickton, Hawkins, and Spraberry each received specific production day allocations.
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Austin
Texas Railroad Commission
East Texas
Pantex
Pickton
Hawkins
Spraberry
Commission
U.S. Bureau of Mines
Texas
Senate approves war claims bill for WWI workers
The Senate approved a bill providing war claims benefits to about 1,500 employees of contractors captured by the Japanese in the Pacific during World War I.
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Washington
Senate
Pacific
Stock Market Closes Week Strong After Turbulent Ride
The market faced selling pressure this week led by Korea but recovered with strength. Defense stocks fell sharply Monday and Tuesday, then aircraft and rail shares propelled a three day rally into Thursday, with Friday marking the best day in two weeks. The Associated Press average slipped 50 cents for the week to $108.00.
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Korea
Associated Press
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